AMERICAN HISTORY ITSELF IS A TESTAMENT TO THE STRENGTH AND RESILIENCE OF AFRICAN PEOPLE. WE, ALONG WITH THE COURGE AND SACRIFICES OF CONSCIOUS WHITE AMERICANS, LIKE VIOLA LIUZZO, EVERETT DIRKSEN, AND MANY OTHERS, HAVE FOUGHT AND DIED TOGETHER FOR OUR FREEDOM, AND FOR OUR SURVIVAL.
In America, rights are are not determined by what is just, fair, equitable, honest, nor by what Jesus would do. Rights are determined ONLY by what you can DEMAND.
If you notice, it was the balloons that took it out of the air.
Here's a few funny comments on that video:
"A 10 cent balloon took out an 8000 dollar drone. Ha!"
"looks like I need to go stock up on balloons for the apocalypse"
"KILLERDRONE VS KILLERBALLOON = KILLERBALLOON WINS"
Or conservative assholes likes to downplay the gun deaths by splitting them. They divide deaths into four categories murders, legal homicides, suicides, and accidents. Better gun control does seem to reduce all four types.
IMPORTANT SIDE POINT: Gun control is different than gun bans. There are several countries with better gun control, but more individuals with guns.
Keeping guns out of the hands of criminals obviously reduces murders. Making it legally dangerous for people to carry guns reduces the chances that they will make a sudden decision to kill someone.
Reducing the murders also reduces the number of people that use guns in self-defense. But also fewer guns being cavalierly carried reduces the number of mistaken self defenses (legal, but not needed homicides). Other countries do not have stand-your-ground, or even castle doctrine laws, so there is a obligation to retreat, that really reduces the number of legal homicides.
Gun control reduces accidental deaths as people are more careful with the guns that are used.
You would think gun control does not reduce suicides, but it appears that would be wrong. About half the people who would have used guns to kill themselves do find another way to kill themselves, but the other half come to their senses while they have time to think.
Matt Dillon (01-20-2021)
Agreed with the sidepoint, but that requires trust. Not being screwed every few years by encroachment.
It's just another situation where city Democrats are dictating their solutions to their problems to all rural Republicans. It's wrong to broad brush others with your own problems.
"Hatred is a failure of imagination" - Graham Greene, "The Power and the Glory"
Vietnam is a bit more complex. The war started under Eisenhower, with promises of unlimited support made by VP Nixon. In many ways, Nixon was the alpha and the omega of the Vietnam War. But both Kennedy and Johnson went along with those promises, even though with 20/20 hindsight they should not have. It was their decision.
Since 1993, Democratic military intervention has been "lead from behind", with some air support, or even special forces support. It has avoided almost all American casualties, but has meant we have less say in what follows the war.
Bush was more interested in the dozen invasions of the Neo-Cons. Each invasion was supposed to setup a "seedling democracy" in the region, and also fund the next invasion. The Neo-Cons, and more particularly the Vulcans, thought that if they picked the right countries, they could flash nation build them in a few months. Afghanistan was not one of the right countries, but supposedly Iraq was.
trump was all over the place in foreign policy. The Tongo Tongo Ambush is instructive on this. trump sent troops to Niger to fight ISIS, maybe local rebels, or who knows who. They had no air support, because trump was sure he could convince someone else to provide air support if they were attacked. When they were attacked, trump was too busy playing golf to try to get air support. A couple of months later he called one of the widows and said, "he[the dead soldier] knew what he signed up for, but it hurts anyways..."
AProudLefty (01-20-2021)
The problem with figuring out if overwhelming security was needed or not is that it many times discourages terrorists from attacking. Maybe the Alt Right realized that they would be overwhelmed by the National Guard, and that is the reason they did not attack.
Even if it did not discourage an attack, I would almost always rather be over prepared than under prepared.
AProudLefty (01-20-2021)
Doc Dutch (01-20-2021)
"Hatred is a failure of imagination" - Graham Greene, "The Power and the Glory"
The worst terrorist attacks on the USA have not been state-supported terrorist groups. Al Qaeda was not a state, and McVeigh was not even foreign.
Political realists, which from Kissinger on was a major political ideology in the Republican Party, believed that the only actors on the international scene was states. I think that fell apart on 9/11. They tried their best to link Al Qaeda to Iraq, but the two were not linked. Even Political realists would admit that domestic actors do not need to be states.
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